Taking of the Armored Train — Attraction in Santa Clara

This is the location of the famous battle between the revolutionaries and Batista's soldiers going to Havana in an armored train.

On location you will find the bulldozer used to derail the armored train and some carriages which you can get into.

Inside the two carriages you can see some pictures and explanation of what happened on the spot and what was the result (1st carriage) and also see some weapons and bunk-beds (2nd carriage). There is also a anti-aircraft gun on display.

The rest of the carriages is now used to display some weird modern art that has nothing in common with the rest of the museum.

All texts are in Spanish and shorter version in English.

This park is now a paid museum where you must pay 2 CUC per person and 1 CUC for camera (2013).

There are no facilities or...

A very interesting historical site dating back to the revolution. This is what I researched. On December 29, 1958, during the Battle of Santa Clara, an armored train sent by the Batista regime was captured by Ernesto “Che” Guevara and his guerrilla fighters. The train carried 373 armed soldiers, ammunition, and provisions for two months. After fierce combat, the revolutionaries derailed the train, captured its weapons and ammunition, and forced the officers to surrender. The memorial is located on Avenida Liberación in the Bengochea ward, near the Santa Clara station. It is certainly worth leaving...

Santa Clara is also dubbed as city of Che because Che led the guerrillas to win a critical battle here in 1958. With limited resources, Che asked the people to use a bulldozer to derail the track in order to stop a armoured trains with lots of soldiers from Havana. They finally succeeded in taking all weapons and all solders surrendered. This battle indirectly speeded up the end of Batista Regime soon, which was overthrow in 1959 by Castro. Today at the spot where the train was derailed to stop, a museum in real scenario set-up is built here to show the events with the...